Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

How’s the life?  Hope your day was blessed in Christ.  I had kind of a slow day on campus.  Jesse prayed to receive Christ.   I helped a Christian guy with his break-up with his GF (he is better off without her, as she’d turned to the dark side). I went through the Gospel with a lapsed Christian {Will} who had lost his faith and hadn’t told his Christian father yet, trying to get a few words in to his life.  He said he’d see me around so I hope I see him again.

I asked Jesse if he wanted to do a student survey for our Bible study group and he said, “Sure I don’t have anything else to do.”  He’s a good looking African American guy and was sitting outside the bookstore in some soft couch chairs, just down the hall before the revolving doors in the SRC building.  He was really fair skinned, great smile and played wide receiver for the football team and played basketball.  He had a rolled up, faded bandana tied around his forehead to hold back some of his long braided hair that was shades of light brown.  He wore a black and red flannel shirt and tan skinny-legged slacks.  Really nice guy. Looks a bit like Damon Wayans.  He was friendly, and when I asked him why God should let him into Heaven he said, “Ah… well I worship God, came from a pretty religious family.  I’d say I feel I’ve treated other people kindly enough to be let into Heaven.”  He listened attentively to the Gospel and seemed genuinely interested. He knew Jesus had died for the sins of the world, but he hadn’t been trusting in it as his answer would imply. (Though a girl earlier today simply could not believe she hadn’t been trusting in Jesus, even after I read back her answer and pointed out she thought she’d only have a 50/50 shot at Heaven because she wasn’t good enough. She thanked me and left saying she would think about it more.)  I asked him if he thought he’d been trusting in Christ.  “You know, if something goes sideways and you ask God for forgiveness, are you thinking, ‘I am not that bad usually, and I come from a religious family and God is forgiving,’ or have you thought, ‘I know I will be forgiven because Jesus died for me.’ So have you been trusting in what Jesus did for you or that you were cool enough.”  “Cool enough,” he replied.  “So you need to ask for forgiveness?” I asked. “Yeah,” he said. I talked Jesse through the prayer and said if he wanted to he could pray then to receive Christ. After checking for a bit of guidance, he prayed quietly in his heart.  “You can keep the booklet,” I said when he’d finished.  “I like it.” he said.  I told him about the power of the Spirit to live the Christian life.  I asked if he had a Bible or if he just had a family Bible and he said “Family”.  So I gave him one.  “The words of Jesus are in red, so the Gospels will match your shirt.” I quipped. And he smiled at that.  He took a Bible study and a book from me and had to hustle off for the bus.  He thanked me and took off.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. God blessed and I had some good conversations.

In Him,

Bob